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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Beech 18D
N87AZ is a Beech 18D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC, a corporation in Tullahoma, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 1997 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 18D
- Serial number
- 178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Jacobs L6 · 330 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF415 (octal 52772025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 1997
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 30, 1991
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00600852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 550
Tullahoma, TN 37388-0550
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N87AZ links to the rest of the register
- Beech 17,443 aircraft on the register
- Jacobs L6 59 aircraft with this engine series · 330 hp
- Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Tullahoma, TN 112 aircraft registered in this town
- Tullahoma Rgnl/Wm Northern Field · THA
- Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Jacobs L6 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N87AZ, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Beechcraft Heritage Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 1997, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 30, 1991, 55 years after the 1936 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87AZ according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87AZ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data